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Broadway Stars Rally to Support Ukulele Kids Club With New Initiative

Stage and screen performers are joining together to dedicate their time and talents for the benefit of hospitalized children and the nonprofit Ukulele Kids Club…

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NBC Nightly News with Peter Alexander

NBC Nightly News, April 4, 2015 Ukulele Club Hitting the Right Note With Sick Kids | A music therapy center in Miami is using the ukulele to benefit sick children…

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TEDx Coconut Grove 2016 Dreams

Corey Bergman tells how music helps and inspires, even in the toughest times, in his talk “Music Heals” at TEDx Coconut Grove …

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Music Is Therapy For Kids at Miami Children's Hospital
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Music Is Therapy For Kids At Miami Holtz Children’s Hospital

Stephanie Epstein has soothed the patients at Holtz Children’s Hospital with music therapy, a unique way to heal.

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Instrument Of Healing

Meet some of the people and organizations using ukuleles to help children…

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Riley Kid Has a Song In Her Heart and a Ukulele In Her Hands

She says she remembers being thrown from the vehicle in the violent collision. The next thing she remembers is…

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Songs from the Heart

As a music therapist, Stephanie Epstein treats patients with a variety of medical conditions, teaching them to use music to express emotions and aid the healing process…

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Ukulele Music at Give Kids The World Village: A Team Member’s Story

When I came to work at Give Kids The World Village, I knew I’d love spending time with the families and volunteers and sharing their stories…

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Ukulele Kids Club Brings Healing Powers of Music to a Red Cross Shelter

Shelter residents and volunteers gathered to the sound of a live band, featuring the ukulele, playing at the Greenspoint Mall Shelter in Houston….

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Sharing Hope and Healing Through Music

Corey Bergman has been an avid guitarist for his entire life – 50 years and counting. His son Jared, who tragically passed after contracting a virus in college…

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The Power of a Ukulele on Healing Hospitalized Children

Doctors, nurses and musicians believe an easy to play ukulele can make a substantial difference in a sick child’s day. The gray setting of a children’s hospital bed is…

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Modern Hero

Meet Stephanie Epstein, our everyday hero who helps children as they heal through her innovative use of music…

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One Instrument At A Time

Music Therapists speak candidly about the use and value of ukuleles provided by Ukulele Kids Club.

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Huffington Post

Through a nonprofit organization called the Ukulele Kids Club, guitarist Corey Bergman is using the instrument to bring joy and relief to hospitalized kids…

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MiamiHerald.com

Five-year-old Olando Edouardo had never played a ukulele before but, somehow, he made it look easy…

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Ukulele Kids Club Hits High Note with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
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UKC Hits High Note with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

I’m a board certified and licensed music therapist and work specifically on the floor at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta…

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Testimonials

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Hello… I am 14 years old. I am presently in Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando, and I had music therapy today. The person who was doing the music therapy had brought the ukuleles that you had donated, and I wanted to say thank you for them. He had given it to me and I wanted you to know that I will put it to good use by cheering kids up. Thank you so much and God bless.

A Ukulele Kids Club Child
Thank You
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… I have so many of my chronic patients who play and practice on a regular basis in between their admissions. They are all very motivated by the ukulele. I can’t tell you how helpful it is in facilitating and accomplishing therapeutic goals. It has been so powerful!

Emily Herzog, MT-BC
MU Women's and Children's Hospital
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I just wanted to send you a quick hello and let you know how wonderful it has been to incorporate the ukuleles that you donated to CMHH… Thank you for all you do!

Jennifer, MMT, MT-BC
Sr. Music Therapist, Internship Director
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Thank you so much for this amazing donation, we are so blessed to have someone like you in the world!

Neurologic Music Therapist MT-BC
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
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This is Josh, your ukulele buddy. Thank you for inspiring me to play the ukulele. I have to thank you for that. My dad is buying me a ukulele!!! and I promise I will change the world just like you changed mine!!
Sincerely, Josh O.

Josh
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Kayley wants to thank you for the ukulele… she is already playing many songs including “Dear Future Husband” by Meghan Trainor. Thanks for sharing your gift of music with Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, TX… the home of Buddy Holly!

Board Certified Music Therapist
The Gift of Music
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A few weeks ago I paid a visit to a resident who recently went home! I went to interview her with her father for a promotional video we are putting together for the Pediatric Center, and we had some extra time after. I started playing with little Rebecca, but I had not even thought to bring my guitar! What was I thinking?! I mentioned this to her mother, and immediately she ran to Rebecca’s room and brought out the ukulele we had given her from UKC! It was wonderful to then be able to share some more music with Rebecca and brought back so many great memories of our time together, and it wasn’t until then that I think she realized who I was – through our relationship with the music. So, a sincere thank you to UKC and their donations.

James, MM, MT-BC, LCAT
Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center
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I wanted to say thank you for my ukulele. It means so much that this program exists. I lost my art talent because I haven’t drawn for months being stuck in the hospital. I’m so happy with my ukulele. I hope this program exists for a long time. Even though I left the hospital today, but the person who taught me, her name is called Stephanie, felt like my best friend. Someone I could go to while we played music. I come from Jackson hospital. Thank you. I sincerely mean it… I feel happier

A Ukulele Kids Club Child
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We are so very humbled and honored at UKC to have received the AMTA (American Music Therapy Association) Advocacy Award for 2015. We are firmly committed to the advancement of Music Therapy and will continue to spread awareness for the essential need for more Board Certified MTs in pediatric hospitals nationwide.

AMTA
2015 American Music Therapy Association Advocate Award
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Ukuleles are small, but their impact is large. I’m so happy and grateful for my ukulele. I keep it near me at all times, and every time I improve I feel so accomplished. Thank you so much for this opportunity, I never thought I’d ever learn to play an instrument. It relieves my stress, makes me feel good, and makes me feel talented. Thank you for your generosity and for helping me get out of my funk. I am truly grateful.

Abby
Patient
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We can’t thank you enough for helping us make the lives of hospitalized children a more positive experience… We couldn’t do it without you.

Board Certified Music Therapist
Children's Hospital - New Orleans
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I am a patient at the University of Michigan Mott Children’s Hospital receiving treatment for a struggle with anorexia. I was one of the lucky patients to be given a ukulele that was donated to the hospital by your organization and I must express my profound thanks for this amazingly generous gift you gave. Playing and learning the ukulele with the music therapist was one of the few comforts during my stressful stay at the hospital. Therefore, I am very thankful for your generosity and the gift you have given me.

Patient
CS Mott Children’s Hospital
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My daughter was so happy to be gifted this beautiful ukulele for her music therapy. She is now able to keep up with her ukulele club at school.

Mom
My Daughter
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This was so wonderful for my grandbaby through all of her hard times… thank you for all your love and care she received while hospitalized .

Grandmother
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My beautiful daughter, I cant tell you how much she enjoys making music, we have since gotten a piano. This pic taken is from the hardest time of our lives… and I truly believe in the power of music healing, and appreciate the opportunity and light music brought to her in such a dark time.

Mom
My Beautiful Daughter
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Thank you Ukulele Kids Club for the ukulele (courtesy of Matt at Oakland Children’s Hospital). My 7 year old daughter is fighting stage 3 Rhabdomyosarcoma and while in Boston getting radiation therapy she got a chance to take ukulele lessons. When returning to California she told her music therapist all about it and how she didn’t have one at home and he came back to her room with this. She loves to play.

Mom
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“HOPE” was composed and performed by musician and luthier Jay Lichty as a gift of music to the Ukulele Kids Club.

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